“Wonders of Plastics
Essay Contest for Southern California

 

Society of Plastics Engineers is proud to sponsor our fourteenth annual essay contest.

Open to all junior high and high school students within Southern California.

 

Society of Plastics Engineers is proud to sponsor our thirteenth annual essay contest. Open to all junior high and high school students within Southern California. The essay must be sponsored by a teacher and must meet certain requirements (see entry form).

 

The 1st place winner will receive $500.00 honorarium and an additional $100.00 honorarium for their school from the Southern California Section of SPE. The 2nd place will receive $250.00 and 3rd place will $100.00 honorariums for student and $100.00 for their schools. All awards will be presented at our Education Night in March 2010 (location to be announced).

 

The 1st place winning essay will be published in The SPE Press, our Section’s monthly newsletter. The winning essay will also be forwarded to the Society’s headquarters to compete with winning essays from Sections around the world. The international prize consists of a $1,000.00 honorarium for the student and a $1,000.00 honorarium their school. The winning essay will be published in SPE’s official magazine, Plastics Engineering.

 

All essays must be received at the address listed below. Each must have an entry form attached. Copies of entry forms are acceptable. Essays may be co-authored. Once submitted essays become the property of SPE and will not be returned.

 

ENTRY SUBMITION REQUIREMENTS AND ENTRY FORM Click here

 

 

Entry deadline February 1, 2010

 

SUBMIT ESSAYS TO:   

     SPE - Rakshit Amba

     25039 Wintergreen

     Newhall, CA 91381

 

Email: rakshit_a@yahoo.com


                           

 

Congratulations to the 2008 first place winner. Click here to read essay (pdf file)

The 1st place essay “Polyethylene Terephthalate: Friend or Foe?”

by Jesse Smith of Ontario High School

 

2nd place Plastic a Benefit or a Detriment 
by Zachariah Rivera, Ontario High School, Ontario

3rd place Nylon: The Synthetic Fabric
by Jose Jimenez, Ontario High School, Ontario

 

TOP TEN LIST also includes the following:

Student                           High School

Felipe Camacho             Ontario                           

Yozabeth Montoya         John W. North               

Ruben Alaniz                  Ontario                           

Cesar Raygoza               Ontario                          

Nick Lawler                      Rancho Cucamonga               

Phuong Nguyen              Ontario                          

Christine Marcelle          Ontario                           

Honorable Mentions

Omar Honegger              Don Bosco Tech.           

Sharlena Singelton        Pomona Catholic           

This year 153 students submitted entries from the following 5 high schools:

Don Bosco Tech.  Rosemead, CA

J.W. North   Riverside, CA

Ontario Ontario, CA

Pomona Catholic, Pomona, CA

Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

 

 

 

 

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